Ian is rejoined by his brother Josh to scrutinise "Psmith in the City" AKA "The New Fold", the second Psmith novel, serialised in 1908-9 and collected in book form in 1910. It is a highly autobiographical account of reluctantly working in a London bank. Mike and Psmith's schooldays are behind them, but Mike is still fixated on cricket and Psmith is still out to cause disruption wherever possible. There will be spoilers and a soupçon of politics. Special thanks to the website Madam Eulalie's Rare Plums.

Article mentioned in the show that helped explain the reference to the Unionist party

Bradshaw's interview with Wodehouse, quoted in the episode

Mark Hodson's annotations of the novel

Other Wodehouse books and stories mentioned

The Gold Bat

Mike at Wrykyn (Jackson Junior)

Mike and Psmith (The Lost Lambs)

Psmith Journalist

Leave it to Psmith

Big Money

Not George Washington

Over Seventy (Autobiography)

The Luck Stone

The Swoop

Money in the Bank

"The Goalkeeper and the Plutocrat"

"L'affaire Uncle John"

"Comrade Bingo"

Wodehouse reference books mentioned and/or consulted

Richard Usborne, Wodehouse at Work to the End

Robert McCrum, Wodehouse: A Life

Norman Murphy, A Wodehouse Handbook

Sophie Ratcliffe, P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters

Also mentioned

The Fosters of Worcestershire

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Leslie Havergal Bradshaw

Hall Caine

Manchester United

Jimmy and Tom Turnbull

Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

George Ade

Jack Hobbs

The Marx Brothers

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